Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Latest from the Israeli Profs for the Annihilation of Israel

1. I consulted again with the policy advisor I sometimes quote and wecame up with a new policy original for the Olmert government, one nogovernment of Israel has yet had the courage to try:

"And 'Hamas' will never more be heard in your land, nor plunder anddestruction in your lands, rather your walls will be called Salvation andyour gates Glory."Isaiah 50: 18

In a much underreported segment of the most recent al-Qaeda video,released on September 2, 2006, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, Aymanal-Zawahiri, together with an American member of al-Qaeda, call on TheNew Yorker's Seymour Hersh, the British MP George Galloway (who alsowrites for The Guardian) and Robert Fisk of the Independent to "come overto the side of truth."

Adam Yehiye Gadahn, an American convert to Islam who is now a seniormember of al-Qaeda, calls on "investigative journalists like SeymourHersh to reveal the extent of... the cowardice of the [American] regime."

In a later section of the 48-minute video Gadahn says: "As for thosewho have expressed their respect and admiration for Islam, andacknowledged that it is the truth, and demonstrated their support andsympathyfor the Muslims and their causes . like George Galloway, Robert Fisk andcountless others . I say to them: isn't it time you stopped sitting onthe fence and came over to the side of truth?" (i.e. converted toIslam).

This is not the first time Robert Fisk has been mentioned in anal-Qaeda video. For more, please see "Osama Bin Laden praises Robert Fisk(&other items)" (Nov. 4, 2004)www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000056.html.

AL-QAEDA TERRORIST HAS JEWISH ROOTS

Adam Yehiye Gadahn, the American convert to Islam who starred in thevideo released by al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri, is of Jewishancestry, and is originally from Orange County, California. Wearing awhite robe and turban, and speaking in both English and Arabic, he urgedAmericans to convert to Islam. Gadahn said that those working forPresident Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are invited toembraceIslam, but they "should hurry."

He was born Adam Pearlman on September 1, 1978, the grandson of aprominent Jewish surgeon and the son of the musician Phil Pearlman, whoconverted to Christianity and changed his name to Gadahn.

In 1995, Gadahn posted an essay on the USC website describing hisconversion, it was titled "Becoming a Muslim." According to his family,Gadahn moved to Pakistan in 1998 where he married an Afghan.

This is Gadahn's second appearance in an al-Qaeda video. In a videomarking the one-year anniversary of the July 7, 2005 London transportbombs, Gadahn urged Muslims not to "shed tears" for Westerners killed inal-Qaeda attacks. He is wanted by the FBI in connection with possibleterrorist threats against the United States. The FBI believes he attendedal-Qaeda training camps in Pakistan and served as an al-Qaedatranslator and English-language spokesman.

The reason I mention that Gadahn is of Jewish origin is that the publicand journalists on this list should be aware of the phenomena of a fewpsychologically disturbed Jews or people of Jewish origin, who aremaking it their goal to attack Israel, the West and fellow Jews.

These often highly intelligent Jews and former Jews at work in mediaand academia are often used to justify anti-Semitic opinions by others.It is important to realize that just because they are of Jewish origin,they do not represent other Jews.

For example, discussing the Parliamentary All-Party Enquiry onAnti-Semitismin the UK (see yesterday's dispatch titled "Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer andHeidi convert to Islam in Turkey"), the flagship BBC program "Today"yesterday invited on as their leading guest commentator a well knowleftist Jewish extremist, Professor Steven Rose, to denounce his fellowJewsfor causing anti-Semitism. For more, seeadloyada.typepad.com/adloyada/2006/09/bbc_calls_in_th.html andnormblog.typepad.com/normblog/2006/09/for_the_love_of.html.

6. Latest from the Israeli Profs for the Annihilation of Israel:http://www.palestinecampaign.org/events.asp?d=y&id=1897Palestine Solidarity Campaign announcing a conference in Trinity College,Dublin "to theorise what Edward Said called .the question of Palestine.".12 & 13th September 2006Speakers include:Ilan Pappe, University of HaifaRonit Lentin, Trinity College Dublin, the organizer of this conference.

This conference aims to theorise what Edward Said called .the question ofPalestine. in the context of globalisation. An inter-disciplinary group ofPalestinian, Israeli, British, American and Irish scholars will exploreand debate the ways in which the Palestinian experience of being governedunder a .state of exception. may be theorised as paradigmatic for newforms of global governance.The state of exception is characterised, amongother things, by the law being suspended in the .military order. issued bythe executive arm of government, often bypassing the legislature. Throughthe continuing existence of a series of emergency laws, the Israeli stateregulates the lives of both its Palestinian citizens and of thePalestinians in the occupied territories, making Palestine, not onlyPalestinians under occupation, the global state of exception parexcellence.

The conference is part of the IIIS Global Networks project. Themesdiscussed will include the .Palestinisation. of ethnic and racialconflicts, the globalisation of the conflict, the theorisation ofPalestine as a .state of exception. and the centrality of the memory ofthe 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) to the contemporary understanding of theconflict.

The conference will include the showing of Ayelet Bechar.s documentaryfilm Just Married (Israel: Channel 8, 2005) and documentary coverage ofthe checkpoint regime by Tamar Goldschmidt, Machsanmillim, Jerusalem.Full details or fromDr Ronit LentinDepartment of Sociology

Tel: 00 353 1 608 2744

7. General Gershon Hacohen is head of all army training colleges and waspersonally in charge of the expulsion of Jews from the Gaza Strip. Heappeared on Channel 10 a few days ago and said this:

"What happened a year ago (the Gush Katif expulsion) was a crime, and Iwas unfortunately a part of that crime against the Jewish people. What ishappening here now, the second Lebanese War, is the collective punishmentwe have received for what happened a year ago in Gaza."